Bipartite networks

Listed below are some examples of bipartite networks (bipartite graphs):

Movies and Actors

• Data at Notre Dame (gzipped down to 3.9MB, in the form: [from-id] space-separated-to-ids).
• Reference: Albert-László Barabási and Réka Albert (1999), “Emergence of scaling in random networks,” Science, 286: 509–512.

Davis Southern Club Women and Events

• Data in UCINET IV Datasets and in text form below (see also image above).
• Reference: R. Breiger (1974), “The duality of persons and groups,” Social Forces, 53(2): 181–190.
• Reference: Allison Davis, Burleigh Bradford Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner (1941), Deep South, University of Chicago Press.

EVELYN 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 
LAURA 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 
THERESA 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
BRENDA 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 
CHARLOTTE 3 4 5 7 
FRANCES 3 5 6 8 
ELEANOR 5 6 7 8 
PEARL 6 8 9 
RUTH 5 7 8 9 
VERNE 7 8 9 12 
MYRNA 8 9 10 12 
KATHERINE 8 9 10 12 13 14
SYLVIA 7 8 9 10 12 13 14
NORA 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14
HELEN 7 8 10 11 12 13 14
DOROTHY 8 9 10 12 
OLIVIA 9 11 
FLORA 9 11

General References

• Wolfram MathWorld.
• The Degree Diameter Problem for Bipartite Graphs.
• Number of bipartite graphs with n nodes.
• Number of connected bipartite graphs with n nodes.
• Matthieu Latapy, Clemence Magnien, and Nathalie Del Vecchio, Basic Notions for the Analysis of Large Affiliation Networks / Bipartite Graphs.
• Wikipedia.

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